I don't know if I entirely buy the Clinton admin argument that if they didn't pass this bill then there would be been a successful constitutional amendment in it's wake. Just the idea that you can mobilize voter turnout on the premise that the other guys are going to be too friendly to the gays is very weird to me.
But the Bush administration tried to advance a constitutional amendment in 2004 right after Massachusetts legalized gay marriage and the supreme court decision around sodomy laws in 2003 lawrence v texas, which massively boosted their base turnout in his reelection and gay marriage was overturned in fucking California by popular vote in 2009.
It's truly insane how rapidly all this shit has changed. I think the deep hatred towards anything evangelical christian liberals in the US have explains a lot of this stuff when contrasted against european countries.
I don't know if I entirely buy the Clinton admin argument that if they didn't pass this bill then there would be been a successful constitutional amendment in it's wake. Just the idea that you can mobilize voter turnout on the premise that the other guys are going to be too friendly to the gays is very weird to me.
But the Bush administration tried to advance a constitutional amendment in 2004 right after Massachusetts legalized gay marriage and the supreme court decision around sodomy laws in 2003 lawrence v texas, which massively boosted their base turnout in his reelection and gay marriage was overturned in fucking California by popular vote in 2009.
It's truly insane how rapidly all this shit has changed. I think the deep hatred towards anything evangelical christian liberals in the US have explains a lot of this stuff when contrasted against european countries.